Aristotle
Philosopher
"Each human being is bred with a unique set of potentials that yearn to be fulfilled as surely as the acorn yearns to become the oak within it."
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Acorns
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Alan Watts
Philosopher, Writer
"It takes time for an acorn to turn into an oak, but the oak is already implied in the acorn."
Maya Angelou
Poet, Memoirist
"Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
Will Smith
Actor, Producer, Rapper
"Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and again."
Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals."
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"Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze."
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"A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts."
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"Is the acorn better than the oak which is its fullness and completion?"
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"All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially."
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"What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel."
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"The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while."
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"Nothing can match the treasure of common memories."
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"Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes."
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"The squirrel has not yet found the acorn that will grow to the oak that will be cut to form the cradle of the babe that will grow to slay me."
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